The monument has opened a dialogue between the city, the artist, and all those who will engage over time with a work that does not simply say "this is Leonardo," but asks: "who is Leonardo for us today?". This is Leonardo’s lesson: curiosity as the engine of knowledge, a constant drive to question the world.

The sculpture was born from a process integrating robotic milling and manual finishing, in a continuous dialogue between machine and gesture. Filippo Tincolini is not only the artist who conceived the work but also the designer of the robot that made its creation possible: a technology that does not replace the artist but expands their possibilities.

A deep bond is thus established with the Leonardian tradition: Leonardo was among the first to conceive of the machine as a tool for knowledge. In this approach, art, technique, and research are not separate fields but parts of a single cognitive process where the machine is a way to understand how things work.